Teachers' Recruitment Board, Tripura

Education (School) Department, Govt. of Tripura

Teachers are the pastors of the shrine of learning, christened in different names. Role of teachers at the school level, more than ever at the primary level is decisive for the simple reason that children of the age  group of six  to  fourteen are  more inclined  to the unswerving influence  of their teachers and admit anything preached by them as the gospel truth.

    Teaching is but a route of relentless up-gradation of the art of imparting learning. Evidently, it is imperative that a teacher is supposed to have the inquisitiveness for the same which is sine qua non for ensuring quality in education. Of late, the prime importance concerning the quality aspect of education in the  institutions  of  learning has  become a  global  phenomenon since  it  is  the lone mechanism that  can transform  human number  into  human  resource.  Since human resource has gained importance over material resource as agent of growth and development, emphasis is being given for the growth of human resource in the development agenda across the societies.

    In view of ensuring quality more talent in the field of education is vital. Per se, the Government of  India  enacted  Council  for  Teacher Education  Act  1993  empowering  to  lay  down the  guidelines towards minimum qualifications for a person to be employed as teacher. In pursuance of its power the Council framed the National Council for Teacher Education (Determination of minimum qualifications for recruitment of teachers in school) Regulations 2001, prescribing certain criteria for a person to be employed as teacher. Subsequently the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has prescribed a uniform  norm throughout  the  country  regarding  minimum  qualifications  for  recruitment  of  teachers  in school in its different notifications to ensure quality in education. The law of the land has also upheld the view that the right to life also includes right to have quality education.

    Year 2009 is marked as a milestone in the history of education in India as on the 29th August of the said year Indian Parliament enacted the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which came into effect from the 1st April, 2010. In accordance with the provisions of Sub-Section (I) of  Section 23 of  the  RTE  Act, 2009,  the  National  Council  for  Teacher Education  (NCTE) has laid down the minimum qualifications for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher in a school on being certified at the stipulated eligibility / selection test / tests conducted by the appropriate Government in accordance with the Guidelines framed by the National council for Teacher Education.

    In this backdrop, the Government of Tripura has instituted Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura (TRBT) vide, notification no.  F.1.(1-50)–SE/E(NG)/2014,  dated, 17.01.2015  with  a  view  to  ensuring selection of skilled persons for appointment of teachers at different levels of classes in the school education by conducting Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) or the like in accordance with NCTE prescribed norms.

    The state of Tripura has achieved significant improvement in the field of education at different levels including professional and general courses. Besides, the state is heading towards achieving the goal of cent percent literacy in very near future. By itself, growth aspect of education in the state has been addressed in a grand way and the institution of TRBT will further address distinctly the quality aspect of education at the school level in the state.